Tuesday, February 7, 2017

High-Frequency Words For All Learners

High-frequency
words, Dolch words, Fry list, sight words…many terms for the words our young
children need to learn to recognize. We have previously explained the five
components of reading here.Under the
reading umbrella, one of these components is vocabulary. When children are
emerging readers and writers, vocabulary means recognizing sight words. Later,
vocabulary focuses on words that students may be able to decode (sound out) but
cannot understand. Then teachers focus on using context clues, Greek and Latin
roots, etc.

As teachers
of young children, we focus on teaching sight vocabulary. We want our children
to recognize words like this:

it

Many of
these words DO follow phonics patterns. The word it is an example.Let’s take a look at the pre-primer list of
Dolch words. Many of these words can be taught using phonics principles. This
is helpful for children who are auditory learners. Below we have listed words from this list that follow the
early short vowel rules and the common long vowel pattern, vCe.We have listed 18 out of the 40 pre-primer
words. Many of the remainder words like play do follow higher-level phonics
rules but because they are further along the phonics continuum, we have not
included them here.

and

big

can

go

help

I

in

is

it

jump

make

me

my

not

red

run

up

we

Look for
more posts on teaching both visual and auditory learners as you focus on
high-frequency words.

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